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Show -2- Agreement of Purchase and Sale This agreement, made and entered into this 7th day of May, 1935, by and between The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a public and municipal corporation, organized and existing under and by virtue of the Metropolitan Water District Act of the State of California (hereinafter referred to as the "District"), the City of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of a freeholders' charter of the State of California (hereinafter referred to as the "City"), and the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, a department of said City, organized and existing under said charter (hereinafter referred to as the "Department"), acting by and through the Board of Water and Power Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, a board organized and existing under and by virtue of said charter (hereinafter referred to as the "Board"), WlTNESSETH '. Whereas, the Department is a department of the City, having control of its own funds, and said Department did, beginning about the year 1923 and from time to time thereafter, expend funds under its control in the investigation of the advisability and feasibility of the constructing of an aqueduct between the Colorado River and the City for the purpose of bringing and conveying water from the Colorado River to the City for domestic and municipal purposes, and the Department during such times did expend funds under its control in furtherance of certain preliminary work in connection with the building of such an aqueduct, such investigation and preliminary work consisting of the following: |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |